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AOL
I have recently bought a laptop, my old desk top PC is six years old and has been giving me problems for some time now.
The laptop is very good except that it has AOL in it. So far I have avoided initiating any of the AOL facilities. The reason I have been wary of AOL is because of the poor reports I have seen in the past.
Can anyone give me the benefit of their experience with AOL?
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Donald/Scotland
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Donald, avoid AOL at all costs. They are just awful, imho. Lost of popups, advertisements, all kinds of junk. I switched to Mozilla Firefox, got amazing service from them, and have not had a single popup. AOL pays computer companies to offer them as a site. I had them years ago and they were bad then. We subscribed to our local telephone company for the DSL, and used Mozille FIrefox instead of the telephone company offerings. Type mozilla firefox into your search engine and see if it appeals to you.
[This message has been edited by Gardenfish (edited 07 March 2006).]
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IMHO, I'll secound Fire fox...
Oh, one thing, somethings won't come threw Fire fox that you may want. Then I will use IE, but thats only happened to me one time, maybe more for others. -----------------
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[This message has been edited by Grubb (edited 07 March 2006).]
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another vore for firefox. only drawback is you hafta reinstall java, flash ect. but its no big deal. there are a few sites that will not work with it, verizon online billpay being one. but more people are starting to.
aol is way overpriced for less service than you get locally. some people like th built in free virus scanner(included in the monthly cost), but use avg, and it really is free.
if your gonna pay 25/month for aol, your better off th get dsl if you can
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roger
princess anne, eastern shore of md.
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I have already installed Firefox which I used on my old PC and I do like it.
I have tried to remove AOL from my laptop and I get a warning message that if I do, other programs may not work correctly.
So I have removed the desktop references only. I have also noticed that there is no reference to AOL when I look at programs via the Control Panel - Remove/Install facility.
I think I can survive by ignoring AOL.
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Donald/Scotland
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Donald,
That message is probably a standard disclaimer that appears with many programs when removed. Ont the other had it does not take up enough resources to worry about.
As for AOL inself, I would reccomend avoiding it. It does enough quirky things that make it potentially problematic.
jed
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I would go ahead and remove AOL through the control panel. The message is probably just warning about AIM or some component that loads resident in RAM on boot up (launcher program).
What I have found about AOL is that if you use it and any of their AV, Spam protection, or other protections is that unless you are logged into AOL you are NOT protected. I have seen many machine compromised by this, left on with a high speed connection and then whacked with spyware, virus, and pop ups, just because someone left the machine on and not looged into AOL.
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Maxthon is a browser that is IE based...I've been happy with it...my wife uses Firefox...the first thing [well almost] I do with a new computer is remove AOL.
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Thank you everyone!!!
Nobody had a good word for AOL.
I shall pull that dodgy program and see what happens.
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Donald/Scotland
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Well! So far so good, AOL got the chop.
Thanks again and TTFN
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Donald/Scotland